"If anyone speaks, let him speakas theoracles ofGod.
If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the
abilitywhichGodsupplies,
that in all things God may be glorified
through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and
ever, Amen" (I Pet. 4:11).

Our Heavenly Father chose us in
Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4). The Father
sent the Holy Spirit to reveal His Son to us, and then draw us to Christ for
salvation (John 6:44). The Spirit birthing is an essential and
important transaction. Without the Spirit birthing, we cannot be
placed into the Body of Christ, and Christ cannot come into us to live His eternal
life in us.
Paul indeed proclaims that we are not saved by Jesus' death on the cross,
for that is what reconciled us to the Father to make a relationship with Him
possible (Rom. 5:10). We are actually saved by the eternal life of the
resurrected Lord of life actually coming to live in us at the Spirit
birthing (Rom. 5:10). When we were born again by the incorruptible
Seed, through the Word of God, we received all of Christ and were completed
in the Spirit (I Pet. 1:23; Col. 2:10). We received the omnipresent
Person of Christ, that is why Paul says, "it is no longer I who live but
Christ lives in me" (Gal. 2:20).
Paul isn't talking about the Holy Spirit here, or even the Spirit of Christ,
but the omnipresent resurrected Lord of glory coming to live in me with a shared-life or
the Christ-life.

At the Spirit birthing, we also received the Spirit of Christ to be the essence of the expression
of Christ inme and through me (Rom. 8:9). The Spirit of Christ is distinct, but in union with
the Holy Spirit. When I received Christ at the Spirit birthing, I
actually received the Holy Spirit and all the fullness of the Godhead bodily
(Col. 2:9). The Holy Spirit's primary function in me is to fill and
renew the mind to the eternal truth of Christ
and Himcrucified. The
Son's primary function in me is to be my eternal life and expression in this
temporal walk (I John 5:11-12; Gal. 2:20). Religious teaching has
commingled and confused the functions of the trinity, contrary to the
distinct teaching of the Word of God. When God operates in flesh it is has
been through His Son, the Word. His Son became flesh and was expressed
as Jesus of Nazareth (John 1:14). His Son now functions and is expressed
through every member of the many-membered Body of Christ (I Cor. 12:27).

Christ now lives in us with the fullness of His Person,
Spirit, life and nature. As the Holy Spirit renews and fills the mind
with the truth of Jesus Christ and Him crucified, we will really know the
trueChrist who now lives the
Christ-life
in us. Just as the Father spoke and did His works in and through Jesus
of Nazareth, so will Christspeak and minister
in and through our flesh with all of Hisability within us. The more we
know and yield to
Christ inus, the more Christwill ministerthroughuswith all Hisability, and
Christ inuswillspeakas theoracles ofGodthrough
us!
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